Luck, Baseball, Sadistics, Nuclear Power and the Navy

Yes, but what are the odds the Tigers will lose the last five games of the season, specifically?

Click here.

Luke, note where the author is from. Don't you guys have anything better to do?

Walk to School Month

$612 million dollars. It's hopeless. What will the tongue-clucking, hand-wringing, finger-pointers think of next? I swear my next car will be a Hummer. The big one.

Barbaro at the New Bolton Center

Here's an interesting article about his care, with some great pictures of the Penn. New Bolton Center. Caleb, you can finally get a glimpse of the place!

LOOK OUT!

Grandma goes four-wheeling!

My Mother, the savant

In Marilyn Vos Savant's column today, someone asks the question: Why would a barber in New York rather cut the hair of two Americans than one Frenchman any day?

I had to look at the answer. I asked Grandma and Mom the question and Grandma, without batting an eye, said, "Because he makes twice as much money that way." !!!!!!!

She's not so good at Sudoku, however.

Really good poetry

Grandpa Koeber used to recite to my brother Jim:

Jim, Jim, long and slim,
His neckties were all purple.
He'd stick his neck out like an old gray goose,
And draw it in like a turtle.


Doesn't get any better than that!

I got "Tom, Tom the Piper's Son" which was pretty good, too.

Learning to fight back

Luke, after your comments about the Amish school shootings, I thought this might interest you.

Proof of Global Warming

Record early snowfalls in Detroit and Chicago. Also, no major hurricanes.

Cold.

We better act now before it's too late.

"Typically nasty weather!"

Grandma Murphy is here!

It's party time! Manhattans every night!

Luke's coming home, too!

Is he a dog or a mouse?

How could he get that close to a cat and not eat it?